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Issue [1] (January 1895) | Expand
Contract | Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 6–14.
 The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Telegraphy, Commerce, Engineers |
Comments on the enormous public interest generated by 'the series of cricket matches between the elevens of England and Australia', and speculates that the 'money which the newspapers must have spent on telegrams about the doings of the respective teams will probably make a considerable difference in the revenue of the Australian cables' (11–13). Reports that amid the trial of Alfred Dreyfus
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[New Number of Borderland] Anon
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 30.
Careers Opened and Closed to Women. In the Old World and the New Anon
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What is the Secret of Mattei? Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Aurelius J L Gliddon
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| Subjects: | Medical Treatment, Heterodoxy, Homeopathy, Quackery, Controversy, Analytical Chemistry, Boundary Formation |
Complains of 'the persecution to which Dr. Theobald
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Why the Ass is an Ass; or, the Origin of the Donkey Anon
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The New Bullet and Its Deadly Work Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 46.
The Future of the Kinetoscope Anon
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The Book of the Month. "Merrie England" and Its Author Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Blatchford [1893]
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| Subjects: | Invention, Commerce, Socialism |
Explains that 'the capitalistic inventor [...] may be fairly said to make his fortune. But this "Nunquam"
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Issue [2] (February 1895) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Disease, Medical Treatment, Sex, Morality, Race, Ethnology, Military Technology, War |
Reports a 'very scandalous' event in Detroit, where the 'Secretary of the Board of Health
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 137.
Catholic Priests and the Bicycle. Its Use Prohibited Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Notes that 'the Holy Congregation at Rome' has 'decided to prohibit the use of the bicycle by priests, not only from consideration of their personal safety, but also because it may shock the feelings of the faithful and bring ridicule upon the priests themselves'.
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Science Catalogues. A Universal Zoological Record Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Zoology, Periodicals, Publishing, Science Communication |
Gives details of a new and 'very extensive scheme to be started in this country by Dr. H. H. Field
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 138.
The Late Editor of "Knowledge" Anon
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What Drives People Mad? Anon
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"Social Evolution". Mr. Kidd Replies to His Critics Anon
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A Great Woman Mathematician Anon
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Brain-seat of the Muscular Sense Anon
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Section: The Reviews Reviewed Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 150–51.
The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The Humanitarian Anon
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The Edinburgh Review Anon
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The Nouvelle Revue Anon
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Issue [3] (March 1895) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Meteorology, Disease, Class, War, Progress, Conservatism, Scientism |
Comments on 'a spell of winter weather severe and protracted beyond all precedent in the lifetime of this generation', and notes that when, at last, 'the frost began to give, the influenza descended upon us, as its fashion is, striking down high and low, rich and poor, with a preference, indeed, for the well-to-do', and constituting a 'detestable substitute for the malarial fevers of hotter lands' (211). Reports the latest victories of the Japanese army over the Chinese, and observes that 'there is no doubt that in the outer world it will tend to re-enforce the popular feeling in favour of modern scientific improvements and drastic reform. It was not by remaining in the ancient ways and by reverently nursing every mouldy fragment of medievalism that time had spared that the Japs were able to grasp the thunderbolts with which they have hurled China from her ancient throne in Manchuria and Korea. The Japs have won because they were progressive with a vengeance, and, having once grasped the new ideas, carried them out to their ultimate logical conclusions' (220).
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Character Sketch. The Right Hon. Henry Herbert Asquith, Q.C., M.P. Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Industry, Disease, Public Health, Bacteriology, Government, Sanitation, Crime, Analytical Chemistry |
Observes that early in his career as Home Secretary Herbert H Asquith
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 237.
A New Field-glass Anon
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Wanted—A Close Time for Whales Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 238–39.
Some Replies to Mr. Balfour. By Professor Huxley and Others Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Thomas H Huxley
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Balfour 1895
Balfour, Arthur
James 1895. The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory
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The Insignificance of Man Anon
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The Railroad of the Future Anon
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Portrait of a Born Criminal Anon
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Facts About the Ordnance Survey Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 256.
The Troubles of the Theosophists. What Mrs. Besant Has to Say Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 257.
The Torture of Horses and Dogs. An Appeal for Action Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 257.
Curiosities of Modern Photography Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 258.
How to Read Character by Handwriting Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 258.
The Future Work of Geographers Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 259.
Rubber Skates in the Army Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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The New Review Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 267.
The Nouvelle Revue Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 270–71.
The North American Review Anon
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The Arena Anon
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The Book of the Month. "The Foundations of Belief". By Mr. Arthur James Balfour—and Other Founders Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Balfour 1895
Balfour, Arthur
James 1895. The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory
to the Study of Theology, London: Longmans, Green, & Co.
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Pope Pius IX,
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Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August
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Haeckel, Ernst
Heinrich Philipp August 1894. Monism as Connecting Religion and
Science: The Confession of Faith of a Man of Science, trans. from the
German by
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[Physicus, pseud.] 1878. A Candid Examination of Theism,
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John 1895. Thoughts on Religion, ed. by
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Our Monthly Parcel of Books Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Nordau 1895a
Nordau, Max
Simon 1895a. Degeneration, London: Heinemann
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Notes that Max S Nordau's
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Birds and the Cold Anon
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 328–29.
Against Compulsory Motherhood. Lady Henry Somerset Takes the Lead Anon
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Mr. Balfour's "Foundations". By Principal Fairbairn, Dr. Martineau, Etc. Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Andrew M Fairbairn
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Balfour 1895
Balfour, Arthur
James 1895. The Foundations of Belief: Being Notes Introductory
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Was America Discovered Before Columbus? Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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A New Law in Geographical Dispersion Anon
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Will the Future be to the Cannibals? A Nightmare of Civilisation Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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| Subjects: | Science Fiction, Degeneration, Entropy, Imagination, Futurism, Fear |
Declares: 'I cannot understand why so little attention has been paid in the Press and elsewhere to the remarkable story which Mr. Wells is contributing to the pages of the New Review. I referred briefly to it last month, but this month I must really return to the same theme. Mr. Wells has hit upon a very striking conception, and one of gruesome horror'.
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Rain and Modern Rain-makers Anon
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The Nineteenth Century Anon
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The New Review Anon
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The Forum Anon
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Lighthouses of Europe and America Anon
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 387–89.
Our Monthly Parcel of Books Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Clodd 1895a,
Clodd, Edward
1895a. A Primer of Evolution, New York; London: Longmans, Green, and
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Marshall, Arthur
Milnes 1894. Lectures on the Darwinian Theory, ed. by
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Issue [5] (May 1895) | Expand
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Subjects: | Narcotics, Imperialism, Temperance, Health |
Records that 'the report
Final Report of the Royal Commission on Opium:
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How the World will Die. A Ghastly Vision of the Fate of Man Anon
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The Eruption of Krakatoa. Described by an Eye-witness Anon
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The Naval Battles of the Future Anon
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On the Late Professor Romanes Anon
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Zoological Bibliography. Dr. Field's Scheme Anon
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A New Departure in Publishing Anon
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Psychology Done into Verse Anon
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The Fortnightly Review Anon
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[A Blind Typist] Anon Genre: | Announcement | Subjects: | Technology, Disability |
Announces that the blind typist whose skills were advertised in an earlier number of the Review of Reviews [Anon, 'A Blind Typewriter', Review of Reviews, 8 (1893), 182] 'has had considerable success, and hopes that he is now in a fair way to establish a business. Friends who are interested in the welfare of the blind will do well to give some of their patronage to this attempt to open up a new field for the sightless' (446).
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The Quarterly Review Anon
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Argon and Its Discoverer Anon
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The Cost of Electric Heating Anon
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One of the Notable Books of the Age-end. Some Account of the Success of Mr. Benjamin Kidd's "Social Evolution". Anon Genre: | Literary Notice | Subjects: | Publishing, Sociology, Evolution, Progress | People mentioned: |
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Kidd, Benjamin
1894. Social Evolution, London: Macmillan & Co.
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1895. Soziale Evolution. Aus dem Englischen übersetzt von E. Pfleiderer. Mit einem Vorwort
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Gives an account of the early mixed fortunes of 'one of the few philosophic or sociological books of our time, which have had the run of a sensational novel' (472).
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Step 1895
Step, Edward 1895.
Wayside and Woodland Blossoms: A Pocket Guide to British Wild-Flowers,
Wayside and Woodland Series, London: F. Warne & Co.
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The Progress of the World Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Editorial, News-Commentary | Relevant illustrations: | map | Subjects: | Crime, Sexology, Sex, Pathology, Morality, Schools, Engineering, Time |
Reports that the 'trial of Oscar Wilde
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Character Sketch. The Right Hon. James Stansfeld, M.P., G.C.B. Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Biography | Subjects: | Sex, Hygiene, Public Health, Morality, Endeavour, Heroism | People mentioned: |
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Butler, Josephine Elizabeth
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Section: Leading Articles in the Reviews Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 530.
Why I am an Agnostic. By Mr. Herbert Spencer Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Robert A T G Cecil (3rd Marquess of Salisbury),
Cecil, Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-, 3rd
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 531.
What Agnosticism Has Done. A Grateful Tribute from a Believer Anon
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Has a Machine a Soul? Anon
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Electric Railways in Massachusetts Anon
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In Praise of Cycling. For Men and Women—Especially Women Anon
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The Innings of the Philistines. After the Fall of Oscar Wilde Anon
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In Praise of Oscar Wilde Anon
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What I Think of Madame Blavatsky Now. A Testimony by Annie Besant Anon Genre: | Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
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Helena P H Blavatsky,
Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna Hahn
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Blavatsky, Helena
Petrovna Hahn 1888. The Secret Doctrine: The Synthesis of
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 543.
The Effect of Smokeless Powder Anon
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The Revue Des Deux Mondes Anon
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Wanted, a Baby! Anon Genre: | Announcement, Editorial | Subjects: | Breeding, Population |
Observes that there are 'homes which have been desolated by bereavement, and there are others that have been almost as desolated by the influx of what may be called supernumerary children', and that at present 'society has provided no medium of exchange that would tend to equalise the supply and demand and redress the balance between those who have too many babies and those who have too few'. Speculates 'as to whether it might not be desirable to look forward to the establishment, in some tentative fashion, of a regular system of Baby Exchange', and makes an 'appeal to my readers to communicate with me, if any of them should know of any child [...] for whom it would be an advantage to secure adoption'.
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Review of Reviews, 11 (1895), 565.
An Automatic Fog Signal Anon
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The Book of the Month. Getting Better or Worse?—The Criminal Statistics for 1893 Anon Genre: | Regular Feature, Abstract | Publications abstracted: |
Judicial Statistics, England and Wales
Judicial Statistics, England and
Wales: Judicial Statistics, England and Wales. Part I, Criminal Statistics,
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| Relevant illustrations: | graph [5]; map [4] | Subjects: | Statistics, Crime, Popularization |
Claims that 'This blue book is the first intelligible document that has been issued by the Home Office
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